Comments by "Eric Astier" (@ericastier1646) on "The Computer Chronicles" channel.

  1. Nah you are confusing with the Atari. Atari got there first with PBase and could never be dethroned by Amiga.
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  2. your phone has more performance than all the computers that participated in Comdex 1987 put together. Have pity on them lol
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  3. In the 1990 tech speech was clear, no nonsense talk. People had clear minds and clear concise speech. Somewhere in the early 2000's something went awry and people started to have fogged minds and confused speech but i think it was the emergence of tech marketing by non engineers who took over from engineers and it's been a hot mess ever since.
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  4. Computer back then looked sexy especially i loved the white chocolate bar block looking keyboards. I am typing this comment with a vintage Apple extended keyboard. Can be disasembled and cleaned, unlike what they make now which accumulates dirt that seaps into the keys, so filthy, and wonderful mechanical tactile feel, and looks 1 milion times better.
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  5. how so, the PC is still the majority of home computing. Microsoft is a PC OS. Linux is more of a niche from computer geeks and apple OS is an alternative, not a takeover except in the smartphone which is a gadget not a work computer.
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  6.  @PhoenixNL72-DEGA-  Right, i read IBM = PC, thanks for the correction.
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  7. That first laptop cost the equivalent of a brand new sports car in those days and while less powerful than a smartphone, would still have a much better keyboard (no touch screen misery).
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  8. These were the good old days, no incompetent people promoted by affirmative political bs.
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  9. I bought the Atari 1040stf in 1990, by then it had a mature library of software games and applications but was already showing signs that it wouldn't be able to hold back competition as PCs were getting faster every year. By the mid 1990's the average PC was much faster than the Atari but the wide software library of the Atari extended its life and the wide pool of users including hackers provided hacked software to a significant base of users who might not have bought the computer otherwise. In those days software was ridiculously expensive.
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